RIP Helen Suzman
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:22 pm
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displ ... d=12884799Among the solid and overwhelmingly male Afrikaners in Parliament, “baying like hounds at a meet”, she was noisy, rude, contemptuous, “thoroughly nasty when I get going”. “A vicious little cat”, said P.W. Botha, South Africa’s prime minister,
But the claws on her “pretty little pink hands” had drawn blood, and they were never retracted.